China Cracked Down US Spying Network Killing Or Imprisoning Up To 20 CIA Sources – Reports4.2 out of 5 based on 5 ratings. 5 user reviews.

China Cracked Down US Spying Network Killing Or Imprisoning Up To 20 CIA Sources – Reports

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Chinese security services killed or imppriisoned up to 20 “sources” providing information to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) between 2010 and 2012, destroying a network that was years in the making, the New York Times reported.

“Current and former American officials described the intelligence breach as one of the worst in decades. It set off a scramble in Washington’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies to contain the fallout, but investigators were bitterly divided over the cause. Some were convinced that a mole within the C.I.A. had betrayed the United States. Others believed that the Chinese had hacked the covert system the C.I.A. used to communicate with its foreign sources. Years later, that debate remains unresolved.

But there was no disagreement about the damage. From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.’s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A.

Still others were put in jail. All told, the Chinese killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 of the C.I.A.’s sources in China, according to two former senior American officials, effectively unraveling a network that had taken years to build,” the New York Times article reads.

Chinese paper Global Times released an editorial on the issue saying if true, such a move was a triumph for China. However, according to the paper, the New Yourk Times report is most likely a fabricated story.

“If this article is telling the truth, we would like to applaud China’s anti-espionage activities. Not only was the CIA’s spy network dismantled, but Washington had no idea what happened and which part of the spy network had gone wrong. It can be taken as a sweeping victory. Perhaps it means even if the CIA makes efforts to rebuild its spy network in China, it could face the same result.

As for one source being shot in a government courtyard, that is a purely fabricated story, most likely a piece of American-style imagination based on ideology.“